Atlanta Photography Group has an opening for a juried group show featuring “Contemporary Southern Photographers” on Friday night, from 7:30-10pm. Here’s one of the featured photographers, John Elliott’s “Wildebeest Hands”.

Pam Moxley has an exhibition opening @ Botanical Gardens, via Mason Murer, on Thursday, at 6pm. Sounds like a great collaboration between Mason Murer and the Gardens, and you can swing by on your way to (or from) the Christopher Bucklow Lecture at Woodruff Arts Center!

Here’s what’s happening with participating galleries this week, in terms of events/openings/workshops. And you thought ACP was only in October?

Nancy Floyd, Constance Thalken, Joan Tysinger
@ Georgia State, Thurs., Sept. 11th, 5pm
Martha Rosler @ Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Thurs., Sept. 11, 5:30pm
Pam Moxley @ Mason Murer, Thurs., Sept. 11th, 6pm
Christopher Bucklow ACP 10 Lecture @ Rich Theater, Thurs., Sept. 11th, 7pm
Zhang Dali @ Kiang Gallery, Fri., Sept 12th, 6:30pm
Arnold Newman @ Lumière, Fri., Sept. 12th, 7pm
Edith Maybin & Christopher Bucklow @ Jackson Fine Art, Fri., Sept. 12th, 7pm
Michael David Murphy @ Opal Gallery, Fri., Sept. 12th, 7pm
The Ikaros Art Collective @ The Mark Ultralounge, Fri., Sept. 12th, 7pm
Contemporary Southern Photographers @ APG, Fri., Sept. 12th, 7:30pm
Frank Hunter Platinum Paladium Workshop @ Studio Swan, Sat., Sept. 13th, 5pm
Photography at Eno, VIP Preview @ ENO, Sun., Sept. 14th, 4pm, $35

If you make it to any (or all!) of these events, we’d love to see your pictures. Please send them to info@acpinfo.org, or feel free to upload them to flickr and tag them “acp10“.

Lumière has an opening of photographs by Arnold Newman this Friday night, Sept. 12th. Gregory Heisler, Newman’s assistant, will be in attendance.

Iconic images of people of achievement recognized by millions…including: Picasso to Monroe; Bernstein to Dietrich; Eisenhower to Kennedy.
All with his unique style in their own environments.

In Attendance: Gregory Heisler,
internationally recognized photographer.
His images include 70 TIME Magazine covers,
reflecting his experience working with Arnold Newman.

Friday, September 12, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Lumière
Galleries of Peachtree Hills
425 Peachtree Hills Avenue, Suite 29B
When you enter the complex, bear to the right,
Building 5 (furthest from the gate).
404-261-6100

For Directions Visit our website: www.lumieregallery.net

Women in Focus, judged by Fay Gold, is now up at Art Station in Stone Mountain. Have a look!

Sistagraphy, Atlanta’s collective of African American women photographers, are having two shows this fall. There’s an online exhibition, called “New Works by Sistagraphy”, which will be unveiled on October 1st. A second exhibition, at the Auburn Ave. Research Library on African American Culture and History will open on October 2nd, with a reception at 6:30. The exhibition is called “Changing Faces, Moving Dreams”, and includes work from Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier and Members of Sistagraphy. Here’s a description:

“Members of Sistagraphy, the collective of African American women photographers, collaborate with the Center for Working Families, Inc., and neighborhood residents, to present Changing Faces, Moving Dreams, an interdisciplinary project that uses oral history, drawings, photography, and quilt arts to create a portrait of six communities from NPU-V. Artist and Sistagraphy member, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, directs the program, which includes members: Catherine J. Alston, Rita Nicholas King, Malikah Bakir, and Sauda Jackson. An artist talk will be held on October 18, 3-5 p.m. at Auburn Avenue Library. This program is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.

Please be sure to put both of these exhibitions on your calendar, and we’ll remind you here on ACP Now!, as well.

ACP 10 is starting, folks, so buckle your seatbelt! Here’s another opening on Friday night; Jody Fausett at Whitespace Gallery. We’re planning to have the online festival guide up by the end of the week, but put this on your calendar, in the meantime.

Update: Two quick views of Jody Fausett’s exhibition “Snake Eyes” at Whitespace Gallery from Friday evening.

If you’re in Oxford, Mississippi tomorrow, you’ll want to go see a lecture from Atlanta-based photographer Jane Robbins Kerr. Her lecture at Gammill Gallery, at 4pm, coincides the opening of her work, at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

In fact, Gammill Gallery shows-up on the map of ACP 10 participating venues!

The Contemporary is “charged-up”, celebrating their 35th anniversary with a gala event after party on September 13th. Tix are $35, and the party runs from 9pm to midnight!

Atlanta photographer William Boling will be showing a selection of his “You Ain’t Wrong” project, which recontextualizes online auction photography, at the Hagedorn Foundation Gallery. The opening is on August 28th. For background on this project, see Boling’s interview with Stephen Shore, or view the project itself.

August 29th-31st, there’ll be several fine-art first-edition photography booksellers at the Atlanta Fine and Collectible Book Fair. Thanks to Ed Smith Books for the tip.

Mark Maio, who was involved in the early days of ACP, will be giving an artist lecture at Lumière Gallery this Saturday, August 9th at 10am.

Lumière
Galleries of Peachtree Hills
425 Peachtree Hills Avenue, Building 5, 2nd Floor
When you enter the complex, bear to the right,
2nd floor of the last building (furthest from the gate).
404-261-6100

Current Exhibition
Southern Exposures
on View until August 28, 2008

If you haven’t been to the High Museum to see “Street Life” or Sheila Pree Bright’s “Young Americans”, this week is your last chance.

Lucinda Bunnen will be speaking about her work at Lumiere Gallery at 425 Peachtree Hills, Building 5, 2nd Floor, this Saturday, the 26th, at 10am.

Part of the High Museum’s “Road to Freedom” exhibit are portraits of freedom riders from Eric Etheridge’s “Breach of Peace” project. This past weekend, Etheridge moderated a panel at the Harlem Book Festival, which happened to make its way to C-Span. “Road to Freedom” is on view at the High until October 5th.

You can see pictures of Etheridge’s side of the installation on flickr.